Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

South Africa and India have good iron ore reserves and the potential to produce a large amount of low-cost clean power. The world’s largest iron ore producer, Australia, however, currently produces lower grade ores, and could lose its number one place in the supply chain, if it does not invest in equipment to upgrade its product.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 29, 2022

Russia ranks second in the extraction of both crude oil (behind the United States and ahead of Saudi Arabia) and natural gas (behind the United States and ahead of Iran), and it is the sixth-largest producer of coal (behind Australia and ahead of South Africa). share in 2020, by contrast, was about 9 percent.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

The primary limiting factor to higher Q4 deliveries is the near term ramp of Model X production, with the biggest constraint being the supply of components related to the second row monopost seats. Tesla expects the average vehicle sales price to increase slightly in Q4 with more deliveries of highly optioned Model X vehicles.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 6, 2023

Supply chain issues and delivery delays also disrupt EV sales in some regions, making it harder for consumers to take receive their new EVs. In addition, there have been worldwide supply chain issues for battery materials, as Russia supplies 20% of the world’s high purity nickel. What about the rest of the world?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Synergies with the acetyl business include shared customers, raw materials and the supply chain. Celanese on the projected ethanol cost curve in China, based on its internal management estimates, available public information and recent market raw material prices. Earlier post.). Source: Celanese. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Increases in production of nonfuel mineral commodities and increases in prices of some industrial minerals and minerals used to make batteries contributed to the total value of nonfuel mineral production increasing in 2022, according to the report.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The study— Transforming US Energy Innovation —also found that it is very unlikely that the goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 83% below 2005 levels by 2050 can be met without both the increased ERD3 investments and policies that price carbon emissions. billion, a 92% increase over the FY 2009 appropriations.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2020

At this time, the loss of supply from these closures amounted to more than 1% of the total mine supply in 2019. Roskill expects the cobalt market to face more severe supply disruption should the prevention and control measures be further extended on a global scale. —Gulley et al.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2021

Roskill observes that over the past 12 months, the supply tightness in the cobalt feedstock market continued with the absence of Mutanda ( earlier post ) and restricted DRC exports due to delayed shipments from South Africa caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2018

dollar poses an obstacle to further gains in oil prices. As Reuters points out , in dollar terms the price of Brent oil has climbed 9 percent this year, but in yuan terms oil is now nearly 14 percent more expensive. Argentina, Brazil, Turkey and South Africa have seen significant depreciations in their currencies this year.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

An executive from Ford said recently that automakers might feel compelled to invest directly in cobalt production over fears of securing adequate supply. “I Any major disruption to cobalt today would likely curb EV proliferation in the early 2020s, in turn supporting long dated crude oil prices,” Bank of America Merrill Lynch warned.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

China continues to dominate BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) global lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking, for the third time in a row, for both 2022 and its projection for 2027, due to continued support for the electric vehicle demand and raw materials investments. —Allan Ray Restauro, metals and mining analyst at BNEF and lead author.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

Analysts at American Express Global Business Travel say that average ticket prices across all regions are not expected to change significantly. Reasons for the falling prices include increased airplane capacity — the number of seats on a given route — and a drop in the cost of jet fuel. But airline capacity, Ms. Finally, A.I.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 20, 2022

Even if that were possible, there would also have to be an enormous increase in charging infrastructure and in material supply chains. sudden reversal of that trend in 2022 due to increases in prices of critical metals and a surge in demand for EVs. It’s a tall order , and a costly one, to make and sell so many EVs so soon.

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